Ida Santorella told Channel 4 Action News’ Ashlie Hardway her sister died last month, and one week later, she got a phone call.

Santorella, 80, said the caller claimed her sister’s daughter-in-law and niece were with him.

“I said, ‘What’s the matter?’ He said, ‘They're in the next room and they have no clothes on. They don't have any clothes on.’ I said, ‘Well, what's going on? What's the matter? What happened?’ And he said, ‘Well, that's what I want to discuss with you,’” Santorella said.

Santorella said the conversation went back and forth, but the man never demanded money or said why her relatives were with him.

“I said, ‘Listen, you're not telling me anything. You're not getting to the point, so what I’m going to do is, I'm going to hang up. I'm calling the police, and I'm having your phone call traced.’ And they hung up,” she said.

After singing at church later that morning, Santorella checked with her family and found out her relatives were fine.

“I was very nervous, very nervous. I don't even know how I sung at the choir, I don't know. It bothered me for a few days, it did. Even if I knew they were safe, it bothered me,” she said.

At least two women whose husbands recently died have been targeted and, in each case, the caller used the specific name of a relative, police said.

Police believe the caller is finding the names of widows in newspaper obituaries and then using the names of surviving relatives as part of the ruse.

Police said both widows contacted them after receiving the calls last month. Police determined neither relative had really been harmed.

“Prank phone calls have always been around, but using the obituary to make a prank phone call seems to be a new low,” said Greensburg Police Lt. Robert Stafford.